Michigan Bushcraft And Survival

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Gardening and Preserving Food

Vegetable gardening series, preparing raised beds, container gardening, garden by the foot, square foot gardening, community garden, gardening tips, success and failures, organic, pesticide free, natural alternatives to pest control, gardening with limited resources, prepping, canning, pickling, dehydrating, storing and preserving fruits and vegetables. Off grid gardening with little or no use of refrigeration, fuel and electricity. Supporting local business and farmer's markets.

Maple Syrup

This playlist shows everything I know about making maple syrup from start to finish.

Mushrooms

Edible, medicinal or otherwise useful mushrooms, and characteristics of toxic fungi. Habitat; environment, tree host identification, soil types, factors for determining when morels and other gourmet mushrooms will fruit. It's important to be aware of deadly impostors and look a likes in the mushroom world as with some toxins like that from the Amanita, Destroying angel, and deadly Galerina there is no known cure. Never eat a mushroom unless you are 100% certain it is edible. When trying an edible mushroom for the first time only sample a small amount and save the rest for identification purposes, some folks can have allergic reactions the same as with domestic foods like peanuts.

Wild Plants

Plants aren't just for eating! This playlist includes edible, medicinal, poisonous, and otherwise useful plants.

Tree Use And Identification

A variety of useful trees for bushcraft, woodworking, survival, medicine and food

Wild Medicinals And Herbal Remedies

I AM NOT A DOCTOR OR HERBOLOGIST. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. ALWAYS CONSULT WITH A LOCAL EXPERT BEFORE USE.
Wild medicinal plants, medicinal trees, and medicinal mushrooms.

Wood Carving

Carving spoons, forks, knives and such. I hope to add more to this list as time permits. I love woodworking!

Leather Tanning

This playlist shows the entire process of taking a raw deer skin and turning into grain on leather. The process I used is called veg tan for short. using the tannins from the oak tree to preserve the skin and make it tough and functional for all sorts of projects from knife sheaths to leather jackets. This was my first attempt, and I hope it shows the learning curve involved and just what goes into making such a useful product from something that might otherwise be thrown in the trash.

Cutting Tools

A variety of cutting tools I use for bushcraft, survival, camping, hunting, fishing, and for just plain working, both at work and around the house.

Hiking

I'm always stopping to check out a plant, firestarter, cordage material or some other useful or curious thing I find in the woods.

Hunting and Fishing

Game processing, guns, rifles, hunting, fishing, tracking, etc. hunting and fishing videos

Fire Making Prep, Methods And Use

Fire prep, tinder selection, cooking over a fire, boiling water, hobo stoves, dakota fire holes. Fire making using ferro rods, firesteels, mag bars, lighters and such. Fails and successes are shown in an attempt to help those who are learning fire skills avoid the pitfalls of fire-making and to, in effect, keep it real. Most folks fail from time to time, it's the ones who accept and learn from those failures that, in time, improve their skillset.

Friction Fire

My evolution into the world of friction fire. Failure and success! Hopefully you can learn from my mistakes and have a better go of it right from the start. I am forever learning this lost art and welcome all comments and suggestions.

Alternative Fire Making Methods

Uncommon ways to make fire using common items found in the pack, auto or around the house. It's important to know as many ways to fire as possible just in case. If there is a particular method you'd like to see, just ask, I'd be happy to try them out and demonstrate them for you.

Fire With Flint And Steel

Making a flint striker, selecting rocks for striking, making fire and lighting a candle using flint and steel. Of course flint is a relative term as many different rocks can be used, not just flint or chert.

Odds and Ends

Making tallow, shelter craft, cooking, field guides for plants, trees, shrubs, and mushroom identification, book reviews, utilizing natural resources. I hope you like it.

Wildlife and Nature

Videos of wildlife and nature

Gear

I'm not much of a gear hog, and doing show and tell reviews is not my cup of tea. Here's some of the stuff I use when out and about in the woods, swamps and fields of southern Michigan.

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